That was the strong sentiment and nearly verbatim plea of coach Ben McAdoo a few weeks after a dismal season for the Giants and Williams mercifully came to an end.

Fans may be ready to move on from Williams, convinced his terrible 2015 showing means he is not going to amount to much as an NFL running back. McAdoo, entering his first year as head coach after two seasons as offensive coordinator, is willing to take another look.

“I think a lot of people may be willing to give up on Andre,” McAdoo said. “I think it may be too early for that. I look forward to him having a bounce-back year.”

Williams is grateful and eager to prove McAdoo’s trust is not misguided.

“I just wholeheartedly agree with him,” Williams said this week after an organized team activity practice. “That just gives me a little extra gas in the tank and realize there’s a lot of naysayers, but the people in your corner, they’re not the ones outside. There the ones who know what you’re capable of. I know what I’m capable of and just look forward to being able to show that on the field this year.”

The Giants thought they knew what Williams was capable of when they took him in the fourth round of the 2014 draft — a muscular, extremely productive runner from Boston College who set Atlantic Coast Conference records for rushing attempts (355) and yards (2,177) in 2013 as a senior.

Williams averaged just 3.3 yards per carry as a rookie in 2014, yet he gained 721 yards — the first rookie to lead the Giants in rushing since Joe Montgomery in 1999. Williams also ran for seven touchdowns. He was not great, but he showed promise.

Giants running back Andre Williams rushes against the Bills during a game Oct. 4, 2015.Getty Images

His 2015 season was a bust. He got the ball just 88 times and gained just 257 yards, a meager 2.9-yard average, often failing to get back to the line of scrimmage. The Giants, with McAdoo setting the rotation, used four running backs, and their rushing attack was one of the worst in the league before McAdoo made Rashad Jennings the feature runner the last month of the season.

“I don’t think the four-headed monster was very scary,” Williams said. “I think this year we’ll figure things out a little bit clearer and be more effective.”

All four backs — Jennings, Williams, Shane Vereen and Orleans Darkwa — return. Four-year veteran Bobby Rainey was signed in free agency, and the Giants selected Paul Perkins of UCLA in the fifth round of the draft. All six will not survive the roster cuts, and Williams, 23, has his work cut out for him to stick around.

His huge shoulders and arms remain intact, but Williams dropped 12 pounds and currently weighs 220, going from a 36-inch waist to wearing size-32 pants. A new workout regime, more so than dramatically changing his diet, triggered the drop in weight, though Williams said he ate plenty of Korean barbecue in the many such dining establishments on Broad Avenue in Palisades Park, NJ.

“I like how I feel right now. I feel faster, stronger, more flexible and more explosive than I’ve ever been, so I’m just gonna run with it this year,” Williams said.

None of the four running backs last season was happy about the way they were used in McAdoo’s juggling act. McAdoo counters he was searching for a hot hand that rarely surfaced.

Williams knows he provided no evidence for increased usage.

“It was definitely a bit of a drop-off from my rookie season,” Williams said. “Obviously I didn’t make big enough strides for them to say that I was far enough ahead of anybody to deserve anything more than anybody else was getting. So this year, I’m trying to take as many strides forward as I can to set myself apart.”